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全球“颜色革命”金主USAID

一、特朗普将USAID描述为“浪费和腐败”

1月26日，新任命的国务卿卢比奥（Marco Rubio）说：“我们花费的每一美元，我们资助的每个计划以及我们执行的每项政策都必须对三个简单问题的答案有理由：这是否使美国更安全？它会使美国变得更强大吗？这会使美国更加繁荣吗？”这一举动导致了美国在世界各地成千上万的援外计划临时关闭，并迫使相关机构休假和裁员。

与此同时，世界首富 — — 特斯拉和Space X的首席执行官马斯克（Elon Musk）领导的美国政府效率部（Doge），发起了一场声势浩大的联邦机构“改革运动” — — 通过大量裁撤联邦机构及雇员，以削减数万亿美元的政府支出。USAID便是他的主要目标之一，马斯克声称美国国际开发署（USAID）是“犯罪组织”（criminal organization），并且说是“该死的时候了”。他建议将USAID完全关闭，因为它是“无法修复��”。特朗普也公开将USAID描述为“浪费”和“腐败”。

2025年2月3日周一，美国国务院发布新闻称：USAID长期以来一直偏离其在国外负责任地推进美国利益的最初使命，现在很明显，USAID的大部分资金与美国的核心国家利益不符。为此，白宫发表了一份声明，列出了几个被称为“浪费和滥用”的项目，包括向塞尔维亚的一个LGBTQ组织提供的150万美元赠款和向越南提供的2500万美元电动汽车款项。

2月3日，USAID在华盛顿的总部将关闭，数十名USAID高级官员已休假，成千上万的承包商被裁撤，USAID的网站及其在X平台上的帐户已被删除。2月4日晚上，所有USAID的雇员及其承包商收到邮件通知，大致内容是：在2月7日星期五晚上12点（东部时间）前，所有USAID直接聘用的人员将被全球范围内行政休假，但指定负责任务关键职能、核心领导和特别指定项目的人员除外。

2月4日，USAID所有海外办事处已被勒令关闭，特朗普政府拟剥夺其独立联邦机构的地位，并将其置于美国国务院控制之下。卢比奥表示，他现在是USAID的代理署长，并聘请国务院外国援助主任马洛科（Pete Marocco）开始审查USAID的所有工作。他说，特朗普政府不是“结束USAID的计划本身”。但是马洛科的审查可能导致“暂停或废除某些计划项目或活动，关闭或暂停某些任务或职位；关闭、重组、裁员或重命名机构组织，减少其人员规模，并签约或私有化联邦雇员执行的活动或活动。

2月6日，特朗普政府计划在USAID全球超过1万名员工中保留至多不超过300人。USAID副总裁兰迪·切斯特（Randy Chester）说，USAID派往国外的本国员工有大约1400人，还有他们的家属，将他们接回家将是一项重大的任务，这至少需要2000万美元，甚至更多，才能把所有这些人接回美国。这对美国纳税人来说，成本巨大，而且是不必要的。

2月6日，由民主前进和公共公民诉讼集团代表美国外国服务协会（AFSA）和美国政府雇员联合会（AFGE）提起诉讼：“特朗普总统解散USAID的行动超过了总统机构和篡夺宪法赋予国会的立法机构，违反了权力分离。”这是针对���对USAID采取的迅速行动提起的第一项诉讼。

据美国国会统计，USAID全球雇员超过1万人，其中，2/3在海外工作。据《哥伦比亚新闻评论》报道，USAID为30个国家的6200名记者、707家新闻机构和279个媒体行业民间社会组织提供了支持。根据USAID的数据，在2023财年美国在全球国际开发方面投入了超过446亿美元，但这些外国援助总额不到美国预算的1％。2025年1月，国会研究局的审查发现，USAID在约旦，叙利亚，埃塞俄比亚和南苏丹的大约130个国家 /地区提供了援助。在巴以冲突中，它还向以色列提供了数百万美元的军事援助。尽管对外援助资金冻结了，但卢比奥对以色列和埃及的军事援助进行了豁免。

USAID每年在全球范围内分发数十亿美元，以帮助减轻贫困，治疗疾病并应对饥荒和自然灾害。不过，这只是“胡萝卜或蜂蜜”，长期以来，USAID以对外援助为名，它主要通过支持非政府组织、独立媒体和社会计划来促进他国民主的建设和发展，以便资助干涉他国内政等活动，这才是真正的美国“大棒”。

二、USAID是个什么鬼？

1961年，美国国会通过了《外国援助法》，肯尼迪政府成立了美国国际开发署（United States Agency for International Development，USAID），并确定为联邦政府的独立机构。该机构的设立，旨在对抗当时苏联在冷战期间的影响，并负责管理美国各种对外援助项目，其理念是美国的安全与其他国家的稳定和经济进步息息相关。事实上，从那时起，共和党人和民主党人就该机构及其资金去向进行了长期斗争。共和党通常会努力向国务院提供对其政策和资金的更多控制，而民主党通常会促进USAID的自治和权威。

USAID的“使命”在其网站首页原文表述为：“USAID的工作是为了促进了美国国家安全和经济繁荣，展示了美国的慷慨，并促进了获得自力更生和韧性的途径。”其重点工作之一，就是向他国推广“美国价值观”。

为了促进这些目标，2006年USAID成立选举和政治程序（EPP）基金，2012年成立了民主、人权和治理卓越中心（DRG中心）。该中心为他国在民主、人权和治理方面提供宣传、建议和技术支持，并提高DRG在USAID及美国政府在多边战略中的作用。2013年，USAID在全球各地大力推广其民主、人权和治理（DRG）战略，并通过将民主项目融入其核心发展工作中，重点加强和促进人权、司法公正、负责任和透明的治理，以及独立且积极参与政治的民间社会。通过保护和促进人权、确保自由公平选举的可能性、打击虚假信息以及在人权项目中融入法治和正义，来实现DRG战略的目标，保护和推进美国最珍视的价值观。

在USAID自我标傍的“功劳册”中，它重点列举了以下五个重大案例：

一是USAID为84个国家或地区提供了重要的政治支持。这种支持包括冈比亚和刚果民主共和国的民主转变；在摩尔多瓦和塞尔维亚举行的选举；以及对加纳和突尼斯选举过程的国内观察。

二是USAID对缅甸媒体及反政府组织的支持。在冻结USAID的外国援助中，包括3900万美元是用于支持缅甸的权利、民主和媒体的。缅甸军方在2021年从昂山素季的民选政府手中夺取了政权。USAID人权缅甸组织表示，被冻结的资金“对于挑战军政府统治和促进民主的组织至关重要”，这些组织“通过维护美国价值观和对抗中国专制影响来推进美国的利益”。

三是USAID对抗俄罗斯影响。USAID在俄罗斯影响力较大的国家支持治理和媒体项目，比如格鲁吉亚和亚美尼亚。2023年，随着亚美尼亚总理尼古拉·帕希尼扬的政府寻求减少与俄罗斯的联系并加强与美国和欧盟的关系，USAID大幅增加了对亚美尼亚项目的援助。援助冻结意味着一些独立广播公司被迫削减部分节目。 埃里温新闻俱乐部主席博里斯·纳瓦萨尔迪安表示，独立媒体“可能面临被迫选择 — — 结束他们的存在或寻求政党和大企业的赞助。”

四是USAID对乌克兰战时援助。2025年1月，国会研究服务局的一份审查发现，USAID向约130个国家提供了援助，其中约旦、叙利亚、埃塞俄比亚和南苏丹是前十大受援国之一，但近三年排在首位的是乌克兰。

五是USAID向以色列提供了数百万美元的军事援助。尽管资金被冻结，但NBC新闻1月报道说，鲁比奥为以色列和埃及都发放了外国军事融资的豁免。还批准了一项“紧急粮食援助和行政开支，包括支付工资以管理此类援助”的豁免。

三、美国政界学界对USAID存废之争很直白

根据2023年3月的AP-NORC民意测验，美国十分之一的成年人说，美国政府在外国援助上的总体上“太多”。当被问及具体费用时，大约有十分之一的美国成年人说，美国政府向其他国家提供了太多的资金。十分之一的共和党人和55％的民主党人同意该国超支了外国援助。当时，美国十分之一的成年人说，政府在包括教育、医疗保健、基础设施、社会保障和医疗保险在内的国内问题上花费了“太少”。

今天，USAID的支持者认为，美国在国外这些的援助抵制了俄罗斯和中国的影响力。批评者说，这些计划浪费并促进了自由主义议程。

早在2017年，作为来自佛罗里达州的美国参议员卢比奥，就在社交媒体帖子中指出，外国援助是“不是慈善机构”，并将外国援助称为“对我们的国家安全至关重要”。

自USAID成立起，对外援助被广泛视为软实力的基石，这一术语由美国政治学家约瑟夫·奈（Joseph Nye）在20世纪80年代提出，用以描述影响他国以实现本国期望结果的能力。 奈表示，他认为特朗普缺乏“对软实力的理解”。 他在2月4日接受NBC新闻电话采访时告诉记者：霸权是让他国做你想要的事情的能力，你可以通过三种方式实现：你可以通过胁迫；你可以通过支付；你可以通过吸引力。这就是著名的 — — “大棒+胡萝卜+蜂蜜” — — 而特朗普不理解蜂蜜。

美国民主党人认为，USAID是美国与世界各地社区建立关系的关键软性工具，并指出“三个D”支柱接触了美国国家安全：国防，外交和发展。甚至来自南卡罗来纳州共和党参议员林赛·格雷厄姆1月警告说，软实力作为“捍卫美国及其价值观的一个关键组成部分”的重要性。“如果你不参与世界事务，我们就会犯错误。”

2月5日，USAID的五位前署长联合起来签署了一份声明，对特朗普政府试图解散该机构的努力进行了严厉批评。 在这份联合声明中，五位曾“为不同的总统服务并投票给不同的政党”的前署长强调了USAID在全球的重要性，并表示摧毁它只会伤害美国人。

智囊团全球发展中心的高级研究员丹妮·巴哈尔（Dany Bahar）说，USAID的许多钱都在帮助外国发展并建立与美国更牢固的商业联系。

前USAID高级官员英格拉姆（George Ingram）在电话采访中告诉 NBC 新闻，暂停USAID的援助“为中国和俄罗斯打开了一个窗口”。他们警告说，这一决定将导致美国在非洲、南美洲和亚洲的影响力下降。他们批评特朗普决定关闭USAID和冻结外国资金的批评者担心，此举为中国提供了作为世界各地有影响力的超级大国的空间。

民主党立法者称，关闭USAID是“违法、违宪”的举动，将伤害国外穷人，损害美国国家安全，并减少美国对全球舞台的影响。

总之，特朗普政府对USAID的裁撤计划，的确是“拔出萝卜带出泥”。从USAID的存废之争中，它让世界各国看清了美国民主、人权与自由的真相。

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Lotus T125: El Fórmula 1 que nació para que lo corra cualquiera

Concebido por Lotus para cautivar a millonarios amantes de la velocidad fue un sueño audaz que nunca se materializó por completo.

En la víspera del Salón del Automóvil de París de 2010, el CEO de Lotus, Dany Bahar, llevó a una docena de fieles seguidores de la marca a la fábrica de la legendaria marca para una inducción en el ilustre pasado de la empresa creada por Colin Chapman. Luego los invitados fueron llevados en jet privado al Museo del Louvre, en París, donde la compañía británica les develó su último proyecto: el…

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Italian Company Ares Is Turning the C8 Corvette into a Hypercar

But they changed in this car is not worth what they do at all these people are frauds and they've been frauds for a long time and you can see it in there Bentley and the Mercedes truck that they didn't change hardly anything put some accents on and they polished it shiny and they said that they did something here it looks like they changed the doors and the body of teeny bit something on the rear end and that's it it's not worthwhile to do this at all. And this guy's been fooling people for quite a while and putting accents on it takes probably 20 minutes and he makes a ton of money and it doesn't do a damn thing and we are always disgusted by people like that and I said thought it was just the golden doors the gully doors and practically is there's only two other things to change and you found them that's ridiculous so you don't suggest to bringing your car there as a matter of fact he goes through I didn't this devices in has been found out for doing so has been watched for the government for years because they just take from him and he goes after them occasionally

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Lotus Elise Concept, 2010. The last time Lotus was going to replace the Elise it was with this car which was part of an ambitious plan to produce a whole new generation of Lotus cars under the directorship of Dany Bahar (now CEO of Ares Design). The plan was never realised as Lotus lacked the resources to fund it and Bahar was dismissed from his role as CEO in 2012

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The ARES Design Dubai Show opening by Dany Bahar

ARES Design recently opened its new Dubai show room, in the amazing location of the Dubai International Financial Center. Let's relive together the atmosphere, with the stunning Panther ProgettoUno and the iconic Corvette Stingray!

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Dany Bahar is a Turkish-born Swiss business executive and the founder of luxury automotive retailer ARES.

Dany Bahar involvement in the automotive and motorsports industries began at Red Bull, where between 2003 and 2007 he led the launch of the Formula One teams Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso.

From 2007 to 2009 Dany Bahar was Senior Vice President Commercial and Brand at Ferrari, after which he became CEO of Group Lotus, a term which ended in 2012 after the parent company was taken over.

In 2012 Dany Bahar founded ARES, an Italian company modifying high-performance cars.

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Ares S1 Project 

When you’re a coach builder best known for your work on luxury and high-performance cars, the next step in your evolution is only natural: Make one of your own. And that’s just what Ares Design is doing with its new supercar concept, the S1 Project.

The Italian company has just unveiled its first original vehicle, a limited-run speedster it claims will churn out more than 700 horses. And this isn’t just some theoretical mock-up. The Modena-based company, which was co-founded by former Lotus CEO Dany Bahar, has built its reputation on elegant coach work, and it shows through in the S1 Project’s curvaceous exterior. The brash vehicle features an all-new design, with a flowing shape that revolves around giant front and rear fenders. In front is a dramatic down-sloping hood that smoothly segues into a spacious cockpit that begins at the front tiers. With the driver’s cabin in a front-forward position, the car almost looks like a rocket ship on wheels.

But while the exterior may be the S1’s standout feature, the car’s technical specs are no less impressive. The S1 will be powered by a naturally aspirated V8 that can rev up to 8,800 rpm and produce a 715 horses. Mated to an eight-speed dual-clutch transmission, the engine can rocket the car from zero to 62 mph in just 2.7 seconds. While its far from the most powerful supercar out there, the Ares model will bring plenty of grunt to the road. Other technical features include a double wishbone suspension, forged-aluminum axles and adaptive Magnetic Ride Control, all of which promise to give the S1 Project a smoother ride—not a characteristic often associated with supercars. While Ares hasn’t released pricing info for the S1 Project, you can expect it to be steep, especially since the company only intends to build 24 examples of the vehicle.

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The recent tragedy of the death of over 50 migrants in an abandoned overheated truck in Texas forces us to reevaluate whether there is a better way for the United States—and there must be—to deal with the immigrants trying to reach the country.  

This reevaluation includes not only adopting a more humanitarian approach to border policies, but also challenging preconceived ideas about these immigrants, which will allow us to embrace them as they are: much-needed workers that can complement the American workforce. 

Our argument is simple; the U.S. workforce is aging and cannot meet the economy’s capacity. Yet, for nearly 20 years, U.S. authorities have deported over 1 million immigrants originally from Central America’s Northern Triangle to their home countries through Mexico. But these potential workers are essential to the U.S. right now: Historically immigrants have been young and have joined the workforce in occupations that very few Americans are able or willing to fill today.  

The need to fill these occupations is evident from the market forces that continue to attract immigrants from Mexico and Central America, despite the incredible and increasing difficulties they face crossing the border. On the Mexican side, the use of “coyotes” (people smugglers) has gone up by 30 percent⁠—from about 45 percent in the second half of 2020 to nearly 60 percent in the last quarter of 2020⁠—as measured by surveys of returned Mexican migrants. According to these surveys, coyotes charged sums close to $6,000 per person smuggled in 2019, though that cost is reported to have gone down in 2020, presumably because of the slowdown in crossing caused by COVID-19. Nevertheless, the mere existence of this illicit market on the border is, arguably, a result of the dramatic increase in U.S. efforts—and resources—to stop this migration. In May 2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection registered 240,000 encounters that month, up nearly 70 percent from May 2019, putting fiscal year 2022 on track to hit a record number of border encounters in recent history.  

Despite the conditions at the border, a deep dive into the data speaks for itself on the need for the U.S. to drastically redesign its migration policy with respect to Mexico and Central America and to put forward legal pathways for immigrants to enter and work in the United States instead of trying to apprehend them at the border.  

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𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐋𝐘𝐍 '𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐘' 𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐑𝐈 𝐘𝐀𝐕𝐔𝐙 𝐕𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐄

( cis woman | she/her | bahar şahin ) —— isn’t that CHERILYN ‘CHERRY’ VALENTINE? yeah that is them, sitting there at the RAVENCLAW table with those other SEVENTH years. when sybill looks into that crystal ball of hers, she sees lipstick kisses on dinner napkins, the bittersweet smell of dark chocolate, rolled up sleeves of an oversized cable-knit sweater, ornate old fashioned rings on each finger, a bouquet of wilting flowers, and the smoke left behind a blown-out candle which seems about right for that NINETEEN year old. anyway i’ve heard they’re pretty ARTICULATE, CONDEMNATORY, and SERAPHIC. apparently they’re NEUTRAL and HALFBLOOD but i’m sure that’s not related…

along the likes of: rue (the hunger games), wendy darling (peter pan), c-3po (star wars saga), cassandra lang (marvel’s ant man), dani clayton (the haunting of bly manor), bonnie bennett (the vampire diaries), lexi howard (euphoria).

𝐁𝐈𝐎 & 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐒. 𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐒. 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒.

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Publications

“Lack of federal data and the legal complexity of individual instances of statelessness make it impossible at the current moment to provide accurate estimates of the number of stateless persons in the United States. However, the CMS report identifies over 35 groups of persons with members who are potentially stateless or potentially at risk of statelessness, and it used Census data to find persons who matched these profiles. It also draws upon limited administrative data on refugees and asylum seekers to supplement its estimates of persons who are potentially stateless or potentially at risk of statelessness.” Statelessness in the United States: A study to estimate and profile the US stateless population. Center for Migration Studies. January 2020. 

“The rhetoric surrounding refugees and migrants has become increasingly polarized over the last decade. The global recession exacerbated feelings of economic and social dislocation for the working and middle class in many countries, caused by rapid globalization, the changing nature of work, shifting demographics, and increased strain on post-World War II era social welfare systems. Tapping into these real and perceived feelings of loss, politicians on the far right in many countries have combined populist economic policies with nativist worldviews, using immigrants and refugees as scapegoats for changing economic realities.” Refugees as assets not burdens: The role of policy. Dany Bahar and Meagan Dooley. Brookings. 6 February 2020. 

“This study applies the motivation – opportunity – ability (MOA) theoretical framework to study the intention – behaviour gap for asylum seekers and refugees who are currently transiting through Egypt and are intending to leave the country in the short term. Primary data were collected through the narratives of fifteen asylum seekers or refugees, coming from South Sudan, Libya or Syria.” Narrative analysis of Syrians, South Sudanese and Libyans transiting in Egypt: A motivation-opportunity-ability approach. Hélène Syed Zwick. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 3 February 2020. 

“ICMPD’s Migration Outlook presents a brief analysis of migration and policy trends and provides an outlook on developments and events to watch out for in 2020. Thus, the outlook does not claim to foretell the future or to cover all relevant trends. It wants to use past experience and highlight what might happen and is important to consider.” ICMPD Migration Outlook 2020. International Centre for Migration Policy Development. February 2020. 

“Pressure on Syrian refugees in Lebanon to return home is rising. Although Syria remains unsafe for most, refugees are trickling back, escaping increasingly harsh conditions in Lebanon and hoping that the situation will improve back home. Procedures that clarify refugees’ legal status are making return more plausible for some.” Easing Syrian refugees’ plight in Lebanon. International Crisis Group. 13 February 2020. 

“This report explores the effects that enforced destitution has on women who have sought asylum, particularly those women whose claims were rejected, and highlights the urgent need to end this inhumane and ineffective policy. To the best of our knowledge, this report represents the most detailed contemporary account of asylum-seeking women’s experiences of destitution in the UK.” Will I ever be safe? Asylum-seeking women made destitute in the UK. Women for Refugee Women. 11 February 2020. 

“The UK's Immigration Rules allow for refugees to be joined in the UK by immediate family members in certain circumstances. Provisions in EU law (the Dublin III Regulation) can also be used to reunite families separated across the EU/UK. The Regulations will cease to apply in the UK after the Brexit 'transition period'. This has given extra impetus to pre-existing calls to widen the scope of the UK's rules.” The UK's refugee family reunion rules: A comprehensive framework? House of Commons Library. 13 January 2020. 

“Based on the site visits, interviews conducted and the evidence obtained, UNSMIL confirms that between 23:28 and 23:39 on 2 July 2019, a foreign aircraft conducted an attack on the Daman complex in Tajoura, which struck two buildings in the complex. DCIM reported that at least 53 migrants and refugees were killed in the attack, namely 47 men and six boys. Those killed were reportedly citizens of Algeria, Chad, Bangladesh, Morocco, Niger and Tunisia. DCIM also stated that 87 male migrants and refugees were injured. Injured migrants and refugees were transferred to four different hospitals in Tripoli, namely the Tripoli University Hospital, Mitiga Hospital, Abu Slim Hospital, and the National Heart Center (also called Tajoura Heart Hospital). Fifteen of those injured were returned to detention following treatment.” The airstrikes on the Daman building complex, including the Tajoura Detention Centre, 2 July 2019. United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). January 2020. 

“This report provides an overview of the legal framework regulating the detention of asylum seekers in Greece and an analysis of the ‘low profile detention scheme’ – under which single males from certain countries are automatically detained – implemented on the island of Lesvos. It then identifies concerning trends and potential legal violations in implementation of this policy. Finally, the report provides a summary of the new 2020 Law on International Protection.” Locked up without rights: Nationality-based detention in the Moria refugee camp. HIAS. December 2019. 

“An Italian court has ruled that the country’s Cabinet presidency and defence ministry were responsible for the refoulement of 14 Eritrean nationals in July 2009, when a warship rescued some 80 people and took them back to Libya, ignoring requests for international protection.” Italy guilty of refoulements in 2009 handover of Eritrean shipwreck survivors to Libya. Yasha Maccanico. Statewatch. January 2020. 

“The Court has never questioned the legitimacy of the national lists of “safe third countries” as such, nor has it declared that a given third country was (or was not) safe. The current approach of our Court is mainly procedural; it is focused on examining the procedural guarantees that must necessarily underpin the evaluation carried out by domestic authorities. The deporting State cannot simply rely on its own definition of the third country as safe, and it has a general procedural obligation to carry out a fair and thorough examination of the conditions in that third country.” Articles 2, 3, 8 and 13: The concept of a “safe third country” in the case-law of the Court. European Court of Human Rights. 2018. 

“Would the disembarkation of migrants and refugees in North African countries by EU state vessels, including vessels participating in a Frontex operation, comply with international obligations and European law? Thus, can Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia be considered ‘Places of Safety’ for rescued persons? Can private vessels, including NGO rescue vessels, be obliged to disembark rescued migrants and refugees in places which are unsafe? Can they refuse to follow such a command without breaking the law? Is it in line with international and EU law if European Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centres (MRCCs) shift their coordination responsibility for SAR onto MRCCs in North Africa?” Places of safety in the Mediterranean: The EU’s policy of outsourcing responsibility. Prof. Dr. Anuscheh Farahat and Prof. Dr. Nora Markard. Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. February 2020. 

“The epidemic of violence and the deterioration of economic and social conditions in the Central American countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala have forced large numbers of people to head north to Mexico and the United States in search of safety and security. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people continue to be forced to flee to escape death threats, physical assault, sexual violence and confinement. Increased displacement across the region coupled with sharply reduced options for international protection have created a humanitarian crisis that demands a coordinated humanitarian response. Governments in the region must place the wellbeing of individuals at the center of their migration policies.” No way out: The humanitarian crisis for migrants and asylum seekers trapped between the United States, Mexico and the Northern Triangle of Central America. Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). February 2020. 

“New refugees must complete a number of complex tasks which, research by the British Red Cross and other organisations has shown, are almost impossible to achieve in 28 days. These include opening a bank account, finding a job and/or applying for mainstream benefits (and receiving the first wages or payment), and finding and moving into new accommodation. Homelessness legislation prescribes 56 days for Local Authorities to support people threatened with homelessness. Yet, despite having additional vulnerabilities, refugees are currently given half this time to find a new place to live.” The costs of destitution: A cost–benefit analysis of extending the move-on period for new refugees. British Red Cross. 2020. 

“It is estimated that around 15 percent of the world’s population has a disability. This percentage is likely to be higher in displacement situations. However, persons with a disability are often under-identified at reception, which negatively impacts their access to protection and assistance. Forced displacement disproportionately affects persons with disabilities who are more likely to be left behind or abandoned. They are often at higher risk of violence, exploitation and abuse, face barriers to access basic services, and are often excluded from education and livelihood opportunities.” UNHCR’s approach to persons with disabilities in displacement. UNHCR. 2019.

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Government Failure at Home and Abroad

Is it the End of the World as we know it?

Press Release 01/25/19

GAINESVILLE, Fla, January 25, 2019 (Brookings Institute) –- The democratic process has had trying times this past week. In a Brookings Institute Podcast, Dany Bahar discusses Juan Guaido, President of the National Assembly of Venezuela, who has been sworn in as President of Venezuela. While the rest of the world has recognized Guaido as President, Maduro (current/former President) has not. (source) In another Brookings Institute article, Joseph Kane discusses how President Trump has promised a wall to his supporters, and he is trying his best to get funding passed before the 2020 election. How will he accomplish this task? Creating a government shutdown until Democrats ‘bend the knee’. (source)

As of January 12th, the current government shutdown has been the longest in the history for the US. Having started December 22nd of 2018, the halt to governmental activities has lasted over a month, and the effects are disturbingly apparent. Federal employees have been without pay for 2 weeks, causing soup kitchens to be inundated with the furloughed employees. What are our civil servants being forced to stay home for? A wall. In hopes of wrangling the same national-security minded voters for the 2020 election cycle, President Trump has created a ‘log-jam’ in Washington to get $5.7 billion dollars for his wall. Trump is threatening to divert the $5.7 billion from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is severely underfunded already. The wall would take ¾ of the USACE’s planned budget. (source) The US infrastructure has not aged well with climate and population changes, and the USACE’s job is to ensure highways and dams are maintained. Kane writes; “If President Trump were to shift the energy he has put into the wall for a truly comprehensive infrastructure plan, the shutdown would likely be over and Americans could get back to work on the projects that really matter.” (source).

Democracy has never been viewed as a perfect governmental system and this week shows us exactly why. Venezuelan rulers defy their own constitution and the United States government is shut down over a wall. Those at the top have been shown to risk the well-being of their citizens to stay in power.

Founded in 1916, the Brookings Institute conducts research and reports on economic issues, policy changes, development, and the global economy.

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anonymous said : What would be some alternate fc suggestions for Dani Clayton from Bly Manor?

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